{"id":210,"date":"2009-02-25T08:56:26","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T08:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=210"},"modified":"2009-02-25T08:56:42","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T08:56:42","slug":"us-post-office-deerfield-1912","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=210","title":{"rendered":"US Post Office, Deerfield (1912)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img src='http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/deerfield-post-office.jpg' alt='deerfield-post-office.jpg' \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.memorialhall.mass.edu\/collection\/itempage.jsp?itemid=1774\">Built in 1912<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.waymarking.com\/waymarks\/WM2M0C\">United States Post Office<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardcow.com\/140087\/deerfield-post-office-deerfield-us-state-town-views-massachusetts-deerfield\/\">Deerfield<\/a> was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/linda01302\/2853358001\/\">remodeled<\/a> in 1952 <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.webshots.com\/photo\/1082223343032324738VVlmpB\">to look like<\/a> Deerfield&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kellscraft.com\/HistoricTownsOfNewEngland\/Images\/P5299057.JPG\"> third meeting house<\/a>, which <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=Q-fBB7uGjYoC&#038;pg=RA1-PA380&#038;lpg=RA1-PA380&#038;dq=deerfield+%22third+meetinghouse%22&#038;source=bl&#038;ots=qzLFwuDuYQ&#038;sig=1qiAufhh4gYg1ex_Q8JKl8KDJGA&#038;hl=en&#038;ei=kPukSdzZJNWDtweRlqDYBA&#038;sa=X&#038;oi=book_result&#038;resnum=5&#038;ct=result\">was in use<\/a> from 1696 to 1728.  It originally <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=W2wWAAAAYAAJ&#038;printsec=titlepage&#038;source=gbs_summary_r&#038;cad=0#PPA605,M1\">stood on Deerfield&#8217;s town common<\/a>.  An <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=s-9sPTvOvigC&#038;pg=PA256&#038;lpg=PA256&#038;dq=deerfield+%22third+meeting+house%22&#038;source=bl&#038;ots=fF5jaL8g7A&#038;sig=_67kcGFMrQOv1E5JFOi8RbTvK9A&#038;hl=en&#038;ei=nPukSde-JcH7tgeZj9nbBA&#038;sa=X&#038;oi=book_result&#038;resnum=6&#038;ct=result\">original picture<\/a> of the meeting house is <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=4I91ByFGETMC&#038;pg=PA214&#038;lpg=PA214&#038;dq=deerfield+%22third+meetinghouse%22&#038;source=bl&#038;ots=E66VAE_l4s&#038;sig=38LwBJlwOF9dp2rlmUINuA0LPEE&#038;hl=en&#038;ei=kPukSdzZJNWDtweRlqDYBA&#038;sa=X&#038;oi=book_result&#038;resnum=10&#038;ct=result#PPA215,M1\">on the upper right corner<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masshist.org\/database\/enlarge.cfm?img=2600woodbridge5lg.jpg&#038;queryID=185\">a drawing of town<\/a>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.memorialhall.mass.edu\/classroom\/htmlimages\/woodbridge.html\">Delineated Deerfield<\/a><\/em>, by Dudley Woodbridge, a physician from <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=qifsyT5aTcoC&#038;pg=PA132&#038;lpg=PA132&#038;dq=whitehall+mystic+woodbridge&#038;source=bl&#038;ots=g0x-RojM7h&#038;sig=f3HaWi4N3FUoqel41W9YZI5BKJs&#038;hl=en&#038;ei=nAWlSYeWMdG3twfaidHVBA&#038;sa=X&#038;oi=book_result&#038;resnum=8&#038;ct=result\">Mystic, Connecticut<\/a> who kept a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masshist.org\/online\/query3.cfm?queryID=185\">5-page journal<\/a> of his 1728 journey from Cambridge to Sunderland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Built in 1912, the United States Post Office in Deerfield was remodeled in 1952 to look like Deerfield&#8217;s third meeting house, which was in use from 1696 to 1728. It originally stood on Deerfield&#8217;s town common. An original picture of the meeting house is on the upper right corner of a drawing of town, Delineated Deerfield, by Dudley Woodbridge, a physician from Mystic, Connecticut who kept a 5-page journal of his 1728 journey from Cambridge to Sunderland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,47,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colonial-revival","category-deerfield","category-public-buildings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}